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Seeds of life
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Creative Economy
Biodegradable toilet 'paper' infused with seeds encourages plant growth.
18 Sep 23
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Desert sand
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Craft
A new outdoor sculpture features glass blown from the sands of the world’s deserts.
18 Sep 23
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Home sweet home
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Design Thinking
An architectural miniature house pays tribute to female design icons.
18 Sep 23
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Pixel prowess
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Never-before-seen digital drawings by Keith Haring are up for auction.
11 Sep 23
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Brick by brick
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Craft
LEGO introduces new bricks that teach braille.
11 Sep 23
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Emerging ecologies
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A new exhibition at MoMA explores the early days of environmentalism in the 20th century.
11 Sep 23
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Trees meet tech
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Architecture & Interiors
A unique creative space in the Mexican jungle is shaped around natural structures.
11 Sep 23
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A feast for the senses
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Architecture & Interiors
Three South African venues have been shortlisted for the 2023 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.
2 Sep 23
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Open minds
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Art & Photography
Global leaders in graphic design gather for the biggest conference of its kind in the world.
2 Sep 23
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Playing the game
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Product Design
Meet the game women never wanted to play!
2 Sep 23
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Life’s good
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Creative Economy
This Wolff Olins logo overhaul ‘brings a smile back to the world of technology’.
2 Sep 23
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Art at its peak
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African Design
Artists used land as their canvas in the highest exhibition of land art in Asia.
28 Aug 23
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Ter-reef-ic
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Information Design
This thermo-responsive gel has the potential to stop coral bleaching.
28 Aug 23
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Bridge of steel
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Architecture & Interiors
Sculptural steel arches protect this bridge from extreme weather conditions.
28 Aug 23
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Eye of the beholder
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Creative Economy
This hand-painted video game took seven years to complete.
28 Aug 23
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Women in art
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Craft
Nada Baraka is the winner of the 2023 ANNA Award recognising women artists from Africa.
20 Aug 23
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Breast in class
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Craft
These nipple prosthetics are created from hair lost in chemotherapy.
20 Aug 23
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion designer Thabo Kopele gave audiences a glimpse into studio life at Decorex Joburg 2023.
20 Aug 23
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Let the light in
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Architecture & Interiors
A cross cut into the roof of this meditation pavilion allows sunlight to gently bathe the interior.
20 Aug 23
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Es-sential reading
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A colossal book captures Design Indaba alum Es Devlin’s 30-year multidisciplinary career.
11 Aug 23
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Second chances
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Architecture & Interiors
Adaptive reuse breathes new life into old buildings.
11 Aug 23
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Guiding light
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Design Thinking
The Olympic torch for the 2024 games has been unveiled.
11 Aug 23
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Let them eat cake
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Craft
This spectacular wedding-cake pavilion is a celebration of love.
11 Aug 23
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Threads that bind us
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Craft
A hand-embroidered South African scene was transformed into a wallpaper.
7 Aug 23
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Perched on 3-metre stilts, this natural retreat has been raised to meet the level of the striking boulders surrounding it.
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The new Eco Tourism
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5 Feb 21
‘’By uniting local identity with the landscape through forms still unseen in the region, the architect gave 48° Nord a unique architectural expression."
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Renewable Luxury
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La Forestale is a sustainable development hidden away in an Italian nature reserve.
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The Pet Project
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